Interviews
Friday October 31st 2008, 12:52 am
Filed under: Phonogram: Rue Britannia

Here’s some places we talked to about The Singles Club…

Comic Book Resources: ““Rue Britannia” was a hyperliterate “Licence To Ill.” “The Singles Club” is “Paul’s Boutique,” but hopefully without being a complete commercial disaster. Or “Rue Britannia” was the steely Daft Punk’s debut, while “The Singles Club” is the rampant playful experimentation of “Discovery.” I fear the concept album answer may be the closest to it — in which case, the comparison I’d reach for would be the first two Streets albums. Man, I could play this game all day, and be no nearer to actually giving a workable answer.”
The Pulse: ” Balancing clarity and style is the trickiest thing - we’re not the sort of comic who explains everything in detail in captions. We like to credit the readers with enough intelligence to follow the cues the characters say … in which case, deciding what cues are absolutely necessary is the real trick. How do you dramatise something like a hallucination of your Ex-girlfriend stopping time and forcing you to relive some of the most painful moments of your relationship? Well, with difficulty.”
GonzoPunk: “The first series was really designed to be black and white - we were trying to evoke the sense of old fanzines and the cheap-weekly music-press in the UK, with a mass of zippatone and similar. Conversely, this time around it’s set in a club. Clubs need colour, ergo…”

We’re normally up to speak to anyone who wants to do an interview, if only to feed our ever-needy egos. Drop us a line and we’ll try to sort something out.


No Comments so far
Leave a comment



Leave a comment
Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>

(required)

(required)